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Outreach - University, College and Department Service
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
chaired the Department of Economics health economist search committee; chaired the Department of Economics nonprofit economist search committee; served as member of the Department of Economics urban/regional economist search committee; served as member of the Department of Economics self-study committee; served as member of the joint Department of Economics and PAUS search committee for the Chair of the Department of PAUS; chaired the AYSPS committee to prepare the "Public Finance and Budget" section of The Briefing for Summer 2000; and sat on the University committee to allocate QIF monies. He served on dissertation/thesis committees for Stephanie Zobay, Mikhail Melnick, Douglas Campbell, Veronica Mafoko, and Jason Calder.
served as an academic program committee member for developing a doctoral program of Health Policy at GSU and served on the Economics faculty search committee for a welfare and poverty position. He organized the Economics Department's Graduate Students Welcome Event in September, and served as guest lecturer on Pharmaceutical Industry and Policy for the PAUS graduate course, "Applying Research to Policy Making: Examples from Health Care Policy," November, 2000.served on the GSU Research Foundation Board of Directors. He co-chaired the dissertation committees for Stephanie Zobay, and served as a member of the dissertation committees for Barbara Edwards, Robert McNab and Baoyun Qiao.
served as examiner for the dissertation proposal defense of Agnes Bielinska-Kwapisz, and served on the college Web Oversight Committee.
is coordinating the Nonprofit Executive Research Group for AYSPS, with Mike Mescon; served on the Steering Committee for the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies; and served on the Nonprofit Advisory Committee for GSU.
completed development of an Undergraduate Certificate in Airline Management, which is now offered by the University, and an aviation career track in the MPA program, which will be included in the next edition of the graduate catalog. He represented GSU in the annual Delta Air Lines Benefits Fair, September 2000.
Kelly Edmiston served on the Admissions and Coordination Committee for the joint Ph.D. Public Policy Program, the Graduate Committee for the Department of Economics, the Economics Internal Evaluation Committee, the Regional (1999-2000) and Urban (2000-2001) recruiting committees, the Principles of Economics textbook search committee, the Public Economics and Urban/Regional educational policy committees, and as the Department of Economics captain for the 2000 State Charitable Contribution Program.
served on the committee to develop the Health Policy Track of the joint Ph.D. program in public policy, 2000; (with Karen Minyard) developed and piloted a new course, "Applying Research to Policymaking: Examples from Health Care Policy," Fall 2000; and served on the Economics search committee, Winter 2000.
served on the University Advisory Committee for the Freshmen Learning Communities and on several subcommittees. He reviewed proposals for the learning communities and helped develop policies for the program. He chaired the AYSPS Academic Program Committee, which reviews all issues pertaining to AYSPS academic programs; coordinated the AYSPS response for the University Freshmen Learning Communities Program; and served on the committee for developing the health policy concentration in the Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy. He served as departmental core course coordinator for MBA 8403, "Economics for Managers," in the MBA program of the Robinson College of Business; served as a Teaching Associate from the Economics Department for the Georgia State University Center for Teaching and Learning; served on the departmental health economics recruiting committee for the 1999 - 2000 academic year; and served as a member of the Ph.D. dissertation committee for Susan Snyder and chair of the committee for Mary O. (Femi) Alao.
served on the AYSPS Promotion and Tenure Committee; served on the PAUS Promotion and Tenure and Post-Tenure Review Committees; and served as coordinator of the Transportation Studies Program. He served on doctoral thesis Committees in the Department of Economics; accompanied four graduate students to the attend the Transportation Research Board Meeting in Washington D.C., January 2000; accompanied fourteen students on a field trip to Jacksonville in May 2000 in which students visited the Jacksonville Skyway Transit and the Port of Jacksonville and presentations were made by the Director of Marketing at CSX Railroads and a planner at ICF Kaiser Engineers, Inc.; and accompanied six students to attend the International Intermodal Expo. in Atlanta, Ga., May 2000.
organized and coordinated the Department of Economics' Applied Econometrics Workshop and coordinated departmental computer and technology activities. He served as member of the following committees: AYSPS Technology Committee, Departmental Summer Research Grant Review Committee, Committee Revising Summer Research Grant Document, and the AYSPS Academic Program Committee. He served as member of the dissertation committees for Jim Barnhart, Jill Gunderson, Generosa Kagaruki, Robert McNab, Wasseem Mina, and William Joey Smith.
represented AYSPS and PAUS on the university committee for West Africa and the Cote d'Ivoire; revised the HRD masters booklet for new and prospective students; developed two undergraduate HR course proposals; and chaired six Ph.D. committees. She chaired the successful prospectus defense for Howard Bailey, and chaired the successful comprehensive doctoral exams for Kim Magee.
served as a member of the AYSPS Academic Programs Committee, the AYSPS Committee on Teaching Technology, the PAUS Computer Committee, and the ad hoc PAUS committee considering revisions to the MSUPS curriculum; and served as Departmental Web Coordinator.
served as chair of the Department of Public Administration & Urban Studies Promotion and Tenure Committee.
served as member of the University Senate, serving on the following subcommittees: Faculty Affairs (Benefits, Faculty Workload, Academic Services), Planning and Development, and Library; member of the University Strategic Plan Sub-committee; evaluator of internal Research Initiation Grant proposals; member of the college Web Oversight Committee; Departmental Web Coordinator; Ph.D. Job Placement Director for the Department of Economics; Library Acquisitions Liaison for the Department of Economics; member of the undergraduate program committee of the Department of Economics; undergraduate advisor for B.B.A. students majoring in economics; and member of the Department of Economics' econometrics & statistics and labor economics educational policy committees. She supervised the Ph.D. dissertation committee of Jill Marie Gunderson, and supervised the Masters Paper of Ludmila Rovba.
served as Coordinator of Human Resources Programming in the PAUS Department. In this capacity he provided leadership and oversight of the Ph.D. program in Human Resource Development, the M.S. program in Human Resource Development, the Human Resource Specialization in the B.S. Urban Policy Studies program, and the forthcoming B.S. in Human Resource Policy and Development program; designed 2 new courses (PAUS 3211, The Career Development Process, and GSU 1010, Orientation to GSU); assisted in the development of the new major in Human Resource Policy and Development; and served on GSU's University Career Services Committee. He chaired the dissertation committees for Bryan Delong, Mary Langley, Thomas Myers, Margaret Thompson, William West, and Michael Workman. He served as a member of the dissertation committees for Jonathon Dawe and Francis Reese.
served as chair of the Labor Policy Committee for the Department of Economics; hosted an at home evening social event for GSU Economics Club; and served as a member of the dissertation committee of Jonathan Dawes.
served as Georgia Health Policy Center representative on the college Web Oversight Committee.
served as manager of the Experimental Economics Lab and member of the Summer Course Release Procedures Revision Committee; managed and supervised the Iowa Electronic Market Lab; served as captain for the State Charitable Contributions Program; and served as member of the college Web Oversight Committee. She co-organized (with Laura Taylor) the Environmental and Experimental Economics Seminar Series; conducted in-class experiment for Laura Taylor in April, and assisted her in preparations in August; organized an AYSPS lunch to discuss NSF funding opportunities in August;and helped Peter Grigelis with an in-class experiment in August. She contributed a summary of the internship project for the AYSPS proposal for the National Science Foundation's Research Experience for Undergraduates program, September, 2000.
directed the Georgia Institute of Technology-Georgia State University joint Ph.D. program in public policy and serves on its Admissions and Coordinating Committee. In the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies, he served on the faculty steering committee, the merit-increase committee, and the promotion and tenure committee. He served as a member of the University Senate, the Graduate Council, APACE, the Faculty Affairs Committee, the Faculty Benefits Subcommittee, the Faculty-Graduate Student Mentoring Subcommittee, and the E-Course Subcommittee.
chaired the dissertation committee of James Murphy and Wasseem Mina.
is a member of the GSU-GA Tech Joint Ph.D. Program Coordinating Committee. She served as member of the dissertation committee for Laura Tucker.
served as Chairperson of the State Charitable Contributions Campaign Program for the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies; served as Director of Masters Programs in Economics and as advisor to all Masters Degree seeking students in the Economics Department and in the Robinson College of Business with Economics concentrations; served as Chair of the Economics Department Faculty Recruitment Committee for 1998-2001; served as a member of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies Academic Program Committee; and served as a member of the following departmental committees: Graduate Program Committee, International Economics educational policy committee, and Development Economics educational policy committee. He served on the dissertation committee of Robbie Collins.
served the University as Faculty Advisor, Eta Gamma Chapter, Sigma Nu Fraternity; served as member of the Freshman Learning Community Committee; advised all new undecided or undeclared students (both undergraduate and graduate) in the Urban Policy Studies program; served the College as member of the Faculty Affairs Committee and the Atlanta Outreach Consortium Task Force; served Department of Public Administrationa and Urban Studies as Chair of the Urban Policy Studies Graduate Program Admissions Committee, Chair of the Urban Policy Studies Program Awards Selection Committee, Chair of the Triennial Evaluation Committee to review the Department Chair; and a member of the curriculum revision committee.
served as member of the Provost's Committee on Evaluation of Non-Academic University Units; served as Chair of the Aviation Program Faculty Position Search Committee; assisted the PAUS Chair in collecting and organizing information required for the MPA Re-accreditation Self Study for NASPAA; and served as Public Administration Faculty Participant of the Albany State University/GSU Collaboration on Water Management Policy Research and MPA Degree Specialization Planning Process.
served as Chair of the AYSPS Health Policy Track committee.
served as Director of the Graduate Teaching Assistant Program; Director of the Iowa Electronic Market program; member of the search committee for Poverty and Welfare positions in Economics; member of the Graduate committee; member of the Principles Textbook Committee; and member of the Committee for a Health Policy Concentration for the Joint Ph.D. program in Public Policy. She organized the Brown Bag lunch series "Tools for Teaching." She served as a member of the dissertation committee of Jill Gunderson and Mary 'Femi' Alao.
served on the GSU APACE Committee, the GSU Strategic Planning Committee, and for the GSU Senate, he served on the Faculty Affairs Committee, the Planning and Development Committee, and the Academic Programs Committee. He served as a member of dissertation committee for Richard Charles.
served as Vice-Chair for AYSPS in the Faculty/Staff Fundraising Campaign, and served on the Graduate Committee and the Macro Policy Committee of the Department of Economics. He served in the search committe for Director of the Economic Forecasting Center. He also served as Chair of Vanessa Goncalves's masters paper, and as a reader on the dissertation proposals of Wassem Mina, Robert McNab, and Baoyun Qiao.
served on the Dan Sweat Chair search committee and served on the dissertation committee for Kathleen Thomas in the Department of Economics.
served as member of the dissertation committees for Adam Korobow and Wen Tsui.
organized the Fiscal Research Program's Lecture Series, and served as a member of the urban recruiting committee, the undergraduate economics committee, the faculty affairs committee, and the university's parking appeals board. He served as a reader for the dissertation proposal defense of Stephanie Zobay and the final dissertation defense for Mary Kathleen Thomas.
served as Chair of the AYSPS Faculty Affairs Committee, Chair of the Microeconomic Theory Committee, and member of the Economics Graduate and Undergraduate Committees. Created and graded the Micro Theory sections as part of the Masters Comprehensive Exams in Economics. He served as member of the University-wide committee to evaluate Non-tenure Track Faculty Appointment Policies, as Chair of the Industrial Organization policy committee, as Chair of the Microtheory faculty position search committee, and as a member of the Non-Profit Organization position search committee. He served as the chair of the dissertation committee for Harold Ball and Jim Barnhart; as member of the dissertation committees for Femi Alao, Steve McGuire, Chris Geller, and Susan Snyder; as tentative member of dissertation committees for Michael Melnick and Piriya Pholphirul; and as outside reader for Jill Gunderson and Kathleen Thomas.
served on the Provost's Interdisciplinary Barriers and Incentive Team; served on the Undergraduate Committee of the Department of Economics and on the departmental search committee; and chaired the AYSPS Promotion and Tenure Committee. He served as the Georgia State University Representative to the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). He chaired the dissertation committees for Christopher Geller and Kathleen Thomas, and served as member of the dissertation committees for Agnieszha Bielinska-Kwapisz, Barbara Edwards and Pat Ketsche.
served as member of the Search Committee for Associate Vice President for Facilities, member of the Search Committee for Vice President for Research and Sponsored Programs, and member of the Search Committee for Director of Admissions. She chaired the dissertation committee of Grant Black.
served as Guest Lecturer for the Economics Class, Economics of Innovation Entrepreneurship, presenting "Sources of Scientific Knowledge," September 18, 2000.
served as chair of the AYSPS Technology Committee, chair of the PAUS Computer Committee, member of the GSU Senate Teaching, Learning and Technology Subcommittee, chair of an ad-hoc committee created by the Dean to examine technology options for AYSPS classes, chair of the PAUS admissions committee, and member of the AYSPS Web Oversight Committee. He and Katherine Willoughby manage the PAUS internship program.
served as Chair of the Undergraduate Programs Committee, was a member of the Department of Economics Program Evaluation Committee, a member of the Faculty Affairs Committee, a member of the environmental economics educational policy committee, and a member of the Search Committee for Chair of the Department of Economics. She was the faculty advisor for all students earning a B.A. or a B.S., the faculty advisor to the Undergraduate Economics Club, and faculty advisor to Omicron Delta Epsilon, the national economics honor society. She served the university as a member of the University Senate, Academic Programs and Continuing Education subcommittee, Admissions and Standards subcommittee, and Information Systems and Technology subcommittee. She was a member of the Committee for Establishing a B.A. in Policy, 2000. She served as chair of the dissertation committee for Carol Robinson (Ph.D. degree completed August, 2000), chair of the Ph.D. dissertation committee for Peter Grigelis, and chair of the M.A. thesis committee for Marie Hutchinson.
served as a member of the Search Committee for the Vice-President of Finance and Administration; was invited to serve as the AYSPS representative on the Triennial Evaluation Committee for GSU President Carl Patton; and served as a member of the Undergraduate Council subcommittee of the University Senate.
served on the Undergraduate Program Committee of the Department of Economics; chaired a committee to choose a new textbook for the Principles of Economics classes; served as chair of the Mater's Thesis committees of Olga Pavlova and Kathleen Mahoney; served as a member of the Ph.D. Thesis committee of Waseem Mina, and developed the new undergraduate class, The Global Economy.
served on the Nonprofit Advisory Committee of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies; served as the institutional representative at the APPAM National Conference Meetings on November 2, 2000 in Seattle, Wash.; led the NASPAA self-study review on section 5.0 "Faculty"; conducted Independent Study courses for three graduate students; and served as guest lecture on Coding and Qualitative Data Analysis for HHS 3500 Research Methods, April 17, 2000.
served as Graduate Coordinator for the Department of Economics, served as Chairman of the Committee to Evaluate the Dean of the AYSPS (3rd year review), served on the AYSPS Tenure and Promotion Committee, and served on the Search Committee for an economist in social policy. She served on the dissertation committees of M. Femi Alao, Kathleen Thomas, Barbara Edwards, Agnes Bielinska, Susan Snyder, William J. Smith, Chris Geller, and James Murphy.
served on the economics department search urban/regional and welfare/poverty search committee, headed the public finance committee of the department, and served on the University Senate, research and budget committees. She served as dissertation chair for Barbara Edwards and Agnes Beilwicz, and on the dissertation committees of Douglas Campbell, Robert McNab, Stephanie Zobay, and Baoyun Quio.
William L. Waugh, Jr. served on the University Senate's Budget, Planning and Development Committee, the Information Systems and Technology Committee, the Student Discipline Committees, and the Task Force on Faculty Diversity. He served on the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies' Faculty Affairs Committee (1999-01) and on two post-tenure review committees for the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies.
served as chair of the State Charitable Contributions Drive for the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies, creating a model solicitation letter that was distributed to other unit chairs in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. Verna J. Willis serves as advisor to undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students in HRD. She served as dissertation committee chair for Jonathan Dawe, Shara Fountain, Lucinda Gibson-Meyers, Mary Hooper, Cheryl Johnson, David Kialain, and Georgia Putnam; and served on the doctoral committees for Howard Bailey, M. Bryan DeLong, Lori Fancher, Mary Langley, Kenneth Little, Paul Neiminen, Kathryn O'Neill, Patricia Sherrer, Margaret Thompson, and Michael Workman.
With Greg Streib, she managed the PAUS internship program.
served as member of the Senate Statutes and Bylaws Committee, Senate Library Committee, Senate Student Life and Development Committee, Fiscal Advisory Committee to the President (FACP) Subcommittee on Budget Redirection, and the University Search Committee for Vice President for Student Services, SPS Academic Programs Committee, PAUS Search Committee for Department Chair, PAUS Steering Committee, PAUS Internship Programs (with Greg Streib), PAUS MPA Admissions Committee, PAUS Computer Committee.
served on the economics department welfare/poverty search committee, coordinated graduate teaching assistants, served on the graduate microeconomics committee and the principles textbooks committee, and served on the dissertation committee of Baoyun Qiao.
